Resistance (BWU)
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| This article is about the Cybertronian group. For the Earth group, seeFrench Resistance. |
- The Resistance is a group from theBeast Wars: Uprisingportion of theGeneration 1 continuity family.
"Well, this is what we look like. Some of us. Others look different."
Led byLio Convoy,theResistancespearheads theGrand Uprisingagainst the decrepitBuilders.A cross-factional conglomeration ofMaximalsandPredacons,this rebel alliance seeks to topple the stagnant empire of the Builders once and for all, ending their tyranny and allowing the next generation of Cybertronians to rebuild their shattered planet.
This sounds like a noble goal, and perhaps it is, but the realities of fighting a guerrilla war on three fronts—against theMicromasters,thePredacon Secret Police,and theMaximal Command Security Force—mean that the Resistance fights just as dirty as the order it seeks to overthrow. Members have been known to utilizeweapons of mass destructionand deliberately sacrifice the lives of innocents if it means advancing their own goals. That said, their myriad enemies aren't much better.
Fiction
Beast Wars Uprising
The first known Maximals to rebel against the Builders were a small group of gladiators originally led byOptimus Primal.Following the deaths ofRhinoxandSilverboltand the disappearance ofRattrap,Cheetor,Nightscream,andBlackarachniaassassinated their leader.Prologue"TransTech" Blackarachnia's profile in Club magazine #25
More Predacons rallied under Cheetor's leadership. Their rebellion resulted in a battle against the Builders, which saw Cheetor damaged and instasis lock.Blackarachnia and some other rebels fled viatranswarpand took refuge ina different universe."TransTech" Blackarachnia's profile in Club magazine #25Although believed dead, Cheetor had survived, and was interred inFortress Maximusalong with other political dissidents.Head GamesAmong them wasGrimlock,who had illegally transferred his spark into a Maximal body and attempted to bomb theBuilder Assemblyin protest of Builder principles.Micro-Aggressions
From here, the Resistance appears to have gone underground for a period of time, with the Builders restoring a semblance of order to Cybertron. This would all change when Blackarachnia returned to her universe of origin. Gathering another group of like-minded dissidents, Blackarachnia,Scylla,andB'BoomrecruitedLio Convoy,the Maximal Guardian of Order and the 'bot responsible for rigging the endlessGames.
At the opening of the 1924th Game, the Resistance moved to interrupt the opening ceremonies. As the Maximal and Predacon teams began their fight, Lio Convoy cut the ceremonies short by assassinating emceeSupersonicwith anAngolmois Blaster,then revealed on live broadcast that he had been rigging the Games since their onset. Lio Convoy revealed theenergon matrixin his chest, and issued a call for every Maximal and Predacon to rise up against their twisted progenitors.Broken Windshields
Seeking to bolster their numbers, the Resistance began raiding prisons. An early target was Fortress Maximus, a mighty Autobot warrior who had been repurposed into a stationary prison. The first two raids ended disastrously; the massive Autobot was able to mentally manipulate the invaders into turning on each other. The third raid—consisting ofBighorn,Cybershark,Ser-Ket,Survive,andCorahdaanticipated the psionic attack by recruitingBuzzclawas a stooge. Once Fortress Maximus had manipulated the insecure Predacon into turning on his foes, the Resistance killed him. At least three prisoners—Cheetor,Preditron,and Grimlock—joined the Resistance.Head GamesWhat Preditron didn't know was that he had been busted out so the Resistance could use him as leverage with theTripredacus Alliance,or more accurately, kill him to gain leverage with them.Derailment
As the Resistance gained steam, the attacks became more and more daring, repeatedly clashing with the Predacon Secret Police and the MCSF.Bighorndirected one such strike on theMelpomene Bridge,a vital corridor between the cities ofKalisandAltihex.Bighorn was killed byStiletto,and the loyalists managed to repel the attack and detonate the bridge to keep it out of rebel hands.Burning Bridges
Another Resistance cell was led by Grimlock, who led his squad to success seven times against Builders and MCSF operations. Contractingsome Predacon mercenariesto raid theForever Vaults,he obtained a sample of theG-Virus.Grimlock's cell planned to detonate this dirty bomb inTesarus Arena,where Resistance prisoners were being forced to fight to the death for CouncilorRatbat's amusement. He was intercepted byHot Rod,and the two former comrades fought a bitter fight. Hot Rod was triumphant, and Grimlock's trooperSnapperopted to turn himself in to the authorities after learning the terrible effects of the G-Virus. Grimlock vowed the Resistance would get Snapper for this act of betrayal.Micro-Aggressions
As the war went on, the Resistance made many gains, but Iacon, stronghold of the Builders, remained out of their grasp. Vos remained a hotly contested state, and an unknown Resistance member destroyed the Crystal City. While Resistance sympathy was light in Iacon itself, it wasn't absent entirely. Word got to the Resistance that one Builder in Iacon, a femme named Twirl, was something special, and Blackarachnia was sent to recruit her, off the records, with orders to "use her discretion" if Twirl declined. Before she could make any headway, Twirl was murdered by a panicking Overrun, who didn't want knowledge of Twirl's Targetmaster physiology getting in the wrong hands. However, as a result of the MCSF investigation, Blackarachnia learned Overrun himself was a Targetmaster, but by the time she had, she'd come to the conclusion that no-one, the Resistance included, could get their hands on that type of power, and allowed Overrun to let himself be destroyed.Trigger Warnings
Four years into the war, the Resistance had gained massive grounds, managing to take nearly a quarter of the planet, though the official party line from the Builders was that they were on the verge of defeat.Not All MegatronsThen the Beast Upgrade came along, and their advances increased even further, as their newly enhanced forms gave them greater fuel efficiency, allowing them to even make a raid on the Builder stronghold ofKaon.Elsewhere, various Resistance members made attempts on Snapper for his deeds, eventually prompting Hot Rod to have the Predacon transferred to Iacon for his own protection. As the prison convoy made its way through Proximax it came under attack from a cell led byMagmatron,with Snapper going missing in the melee. The prisoner forgotten, proto-former and Builders hunkered down for a long fight, untilRampageandBucketheadreappeared, looking to convince both sides to deal with a greater menace: A group of alien cyborgs called the Antares Eight, looking to lure humanity to Cybertron and steal their technology. Working together, the motley crew managed to prevent the aliens from provoking or harming the humans. In the aftermath, Magmatron and most of his cell left the Resistance, forming a neutral faction dubbed the "Ex-Bots".Cultural Appropriation
Six years into the war, the Beast Upgrade allowed the Resistance to press their control of Cybertron, taking it all the way up to a third. However, atProximax,some Resistance members had been forcing captured Micromaster troops into a new version of the Games, for "morale" purposes. Also, the newly-formedIndependent Predacus Statesbegan reaching out feelers, but they made it clear they'd only work with the Resistance if Preditron were taken out of the picture. So, on a visit to Safe Zone Alpha Two with Cheetor, Preditron was beaten up and thrown into one of the Games on the order of Lio Convoy. At the same time, a new, much worse problem showed up: A supposed Builder combat upgrade that turned Cybertronians into mindless, sparkless drones, which quickly spread through Proximax. Pushed to desperation by the Resistance, the Builders had unleashed theVehicon Apocalypse.Safe SpacesDerailment
